Henry Urbach Bücher

Die italienisch-brasilianische Architektin Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) prägte mit ausdrucksstarken Entwürfen einen eigenen gestalterischen Weg: In der Architektur, im Bühnenbild, im Mode-und Möbeldesign sowie in der Grafik nahm sie Impulse der Internationalen Moderne auf, verarbeitete diese aber ganz individuell. Die Grundlage ihres Schaffens bildete dabei die reflektierte Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Wahlheimat Brasilien, seiner Kultur, Gesellschaft und Politik. Bo Bardi vertrat ihre teils radikalen Ansichten ebenso produktiv wie provokativ durch Entwürfe, Ausstellungen und Schriften. Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags von Lina Bo Bardi präsentiert der opulente Bildband das architektonische Werk und würdigt zentrale Architekturikonen, wie etwa ihr eigenes Wohnhaus, die sogenannte Casa de Vidro, das Museo de Arte de São Paulo oder das Kulturzentrum SESC Pompéia. (Englische Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-3853-8) Ausstellung/Exhibition: Pinakothek der Moderne, Architekturmuseum der TU München, 14.11.2014–22.2.2015

Today, economic and ecological forces have finally collided and forced humankind to reassess its relationship to each. For architecture, this means facing its the weather, with its attendant forces of instability and unpredictability. The role of architecture has always been to demarcate an area away from these forces, in which humankind can regulate its own needs. Now, the worldwide sustainability movement calls for an architecture that does not resist but incorporates or accommodates atmospheric turbulence. Arium examines the curious relationship between weather and architecture, addressing instances where architecture has both brilliantly collaborated with and foolishly failed to anticipate weather patterns such as wind tunnels and heat exposure, and demonstrating that this relationship need not always be antagonistic. Begun as a research project under the direction of architect Jürgen Mayer H. from Berlin and urban designer Neeraj Bhatia from Toronto, Arium offers a revelatory in-depth look at this urgent topic through critical examinations by George Baird, Rodolphe el-Khoury, Robert Levit, Mason White, Henry Urbach, Filiz Klassen, Marc Kushner and Dirk Hebel.

J. MAYER H. Architects, founded in Berlin in 1996 by Jürgen Mayer H., has won a number of awards for their extraordinary work. In recent years, they have created a furor with attention-getting buildings such as the new commons for the Universität Karlsruhe or the AdA1 offices in Hamburg. In particular, Metropol Parasol, a gigantic structure for the market place in the heart of old Seville, has made J. MAYER H. Architects one of the offices most discussed by architecture critics. Edited by Henry Urbach and Cristina Steingräber, this is the first book to present the entire oeuvre of J. MAYER H., starting with research and moving through design to project development, and culminating in the actual building itself. A number of renowned authors, such as Rolf Fehlbaum, Andres Lepik, John Paul Ricco, Ilka und Andreas Ruby, Felicity D. Scott, Henry Urbach, und Philip Ursprung take a variety of approaches toward positioning the office's work in today's international architecture scene. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2222-3) Exhibition schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February-May 2009